Could You Make a Sex Tape with a Straight Face?

Sex tapes! Poetry recitals! Alpine tower jumps! Diet switcheroos! Welcome to MORE's fer-crying-out-loud just-do-it already blowout special, in which women just like you hurl themselves out of their comfort zone and into a brave new world where style, substance and unmitigated badassery abound. The rut busting starts here

by Vicki Glembocki

Photograph: Shutterstock.com

“Did you buy a tripod?” I asked my husband after I discovered the digital camera pointing at our bed.

“No, we had that,” T. assured me. He was naked. When I agreed to this assignment—primarily because my husband’s birthday was coming up and this would be the awesomest gift ever—I hadn’t envisioned “tripod.” I hadn’t envisioned much, really. Aside from nervousness. I am not a sex tape person. I am 42. A mother of three. An alto in my church choir. (We’re Unitarians. But still.) I could hardly find time on my to-do list for “sex,” much less “tape.” Of course, from the second he heard about it, T. had thought about nothing else. (I’m pretty sure he wrote a script.)

“Um, no,” I protested as I dimmed the lights to a level I like to call “off.” Then, in what seemed like one fluid movement, filled with the grace and speed of a man who was nowayinhell going to miss this chance to make a sex tape with his wife, T. switched to Led Zeppelin II, turned up the lights, hit the play button on the camera and lifted me onto the bed, all serious and dirty talking and bow chicka bow bow.

After an attack of the giggles, I closed my eyes and started to think that maybe this wasn’t so bad. That maybe this might be, kind of, sexy. When I opened my eyes, though, there was something more pressing to consider.